Method Tailoring as Negotiation
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The need for method tailoring is widely accepted in the field of information systems development methods. Today much attention has been devoted to viewing method tailoring either as (a) a highly rational process with the method engineer as the driver where the method users are passive information providers, or (b) as an unstructured process where the developer makes individual choices, a selection process without a driver. In this paper we view method tailoring from a negotiation perspective using Actor Network Theory. Our narrative examples depict method tailoring as a more complex process than either (a) or (b) show.
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